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Map of Paderborn - "Paderbornensis Episcopatus Descriptio Nova"
Colored copperplate engraving. Around 1650.
37 x 49 cm. Framed & behind glass : 57 x 70 cm.
By Ioanne Gigante (Johann Michael Gigas), publisher: Guiljelmus Blaeuw, Amstelodami (Amsterdam). With armorial bearings of the individual territories. Centrefold rubbed.
Johannes Michael Gigas (gräzisiert, actually Riese; * 1582 in Lügde, Hochstift Paderborn; † 1637 in Münster) was a German cartographer, physician (personal physician to Elector Ferdinand I of Bavaria), mathematician and physicist.
Aufrufzeit 28. | Feb. 2026 | probably 10:04 am (CET)

